Monday, September 20, 2010

Promising Results?

It used to be a given on the street: Get caught with an illegal gun, go to jail.

But under a new program in Birmingham -- one initially derided by some officers as a "hug a thug" rehabilitation effort -- there is another option: Gun Court. [More]
But what if you're not "a thug"--and who the hell are "Only Ones" to be tossing that term around anyway? What if you're a human being who knows you have an unalienable right to keep and bear arms, that no one has true moral authority to grant or withhold "permission," and that the entire concept of "gun restrictions" against anyone able to move freely through society--that is, anyone not confined to a controlled custodial situation because they have been adjudicated a danger to others--is a fraudulent assault on Liberty...?

I guess it all depends on how you look at things.

Some--the "enforce existing gun laws" crowd--see a promise.

Others of us see a threat, realizing that's exactly what the government was doing at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

1 comment:

TJP said...

It used to be a given on the street: while police arrested inanimate objects, criminals continued committing crimes elsewhere.

Good grief, now city central planners are trying to make their failures unhappen.